Rosa L. Wang is a financial specialist focused on
developments that catalyze significant systems change and has been working with
Ashoka: Innovators
for the Public since 2002. She
initially served as interim Director of Finance and currently is a Special
Projects Manager, working on innovative methods to mobilize capital to solve large global problems.

Prior to her work with Ashoka,
Rosa spent 12 years as a portfolio manager and investment banker, with past
employers including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Lehman Brothers, and Dresdner
RCM. She lived and worked in Asia for 7
years, based out of Hong Kong, cultivating and
developing new capital markets in the region.

Rosa was instrumental in introducing Asia
to new foreign investors through on-site visits, lectures, and reports and
created and launched the first Luxembourg-listed Asian local currency
fund. In addition, she co-managed a
team of 23 investment professionals and research analysts based throughout the
region. She was a frequent commentator
on Asian growth and new market opportunities and a regular speaker and
moderator at numerous conferences.

Now residing in Silicon Valley in California
with her husband, researcher and author Eric Drexler, Rosa is
currently involved with a number of organizations focused on advanced,
anticipated technologies, social change, and social entrepreneurship. Rosa
obtained a Masters degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs of Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts in
International Relations and Economics from Rhodes College in Memphis Tennessee.
She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.